NEED for human DIGNITY, SELF-RESPECT, & a Journey of GROWTH - Spiritual Perspectives: Discerning News

Explore the balance of opposing forces in life, the complexities of navigating religious freedom and cultural change, the importance of communication in global dynamics, the race for technological dominance, and the significance of embracing change and personal power. They emphasize the need for human dignity, self-respect, and the journey of growth through ups and downs, ultimately highlighting the importance of being of service and authentic in one's life.

Takeaways:

• The recent mayoral election in New York has sparked significant discussion.
• The new mayor's approach is seen as a departure from traditional practices.
• Charismatic leadership can attract a diverse demographic of supporters.
• Economic challenges are affecting younger generations more than previous ones.
• Taxing the rich is a contentious topic with varying opinions on its effectiveness.
• Spiritual insights suggest that societal movements are driven by underlying energies.
• The importance of understanding different belief systems in a diverse society.
• Imposing beliefs can lead to resistance rather than acceptance.
• The role of local communities in shaping their own governance is crucial.
• Change often brings both opportunities and challenges for growth. The balance of opposing forces is essential for growth.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Current Events and Perspectives
• 3:43 The Impact of New Leadership in New York
• 10:49 Spiritual Insights on Societal Changes
• 21:24 Debate on Religious Education in Schools
• 27:29 The Balance of Opposing Forces
• 31:43 Navigating Religious Freedom and Cultural Change
• 37:23 Communication and Global Dynamics
• 42:36 The Race for Technological Dominance
• 51:18 Embracing Change and Personal Power

Transcript

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Here we are again guys for another episode of Spiritual Perspectives Discerning News. Are you ready? I love it. I'm always ready. I think we're going to first recap because there was a story this week that I noticed about ma'am Donnie and the situations going on. The New York mayor. The new New York mayor. That's the situation going on there that what caught my eye is that there was a rally that was that the ⁓

banner of the rally was, tax the rich, seize our future. And I thought that felt kind of interesting. Yeah, kind of King-ish to me really. I was like, are we in London? Are we back in England? That's right. So, I mean, for those who haven't been following this, mean, most people have heard this, but if you're outside the United States, this is probably one of the more high profile mayoral,

situations where you've had more of an outspoken socialist in charge. So that's part of what's making it so spicy for America, because for you know, that's antithetical to the whole concept that we're used to, at least. But that that is the the latest thing that I understand is they they've won. So now that ⁓ memdani is going to be in charge starting in January.

And then what's recent is that he started an additional fundraising for money so that he can employ ⁓ his people out of the gate, instead of going through the normal waiting process and so forth. from that perspective, I ⁓ think it's ⁓ smart. I think it's, you know.

If you're to try something new, you're going to have to step outside the box of doing stuff. And he certainly represents that. He's very charismatic. He's, he's good looking, you know, he ran a great campaign. ⁓ but the things that really stood out to me was that they're going to go try this. Right. That's the big thing that I was, they're to go try something here. And so, okay. Let the process do its thing. Right. So it's, it's going to, that's what it's going to be. It's going to be that sense of something new.

And it's going to follow the one thing that, ⁓ the other thing that stood out to me is it's going to follow a degree of a certain pattern. Right. And that I'll go more into that for myself and what my impression are is, but you know, he's trying something new. He's going to step out of the box. He's going to step on some toes. He's going to grease some tracks because it's, it's going to be something a little different than what we're used to and what the city's used to. So I think that, you know, we're just at the beginning of seeing something different.

⁓ how it plays itself out, we'll discuss. But that's the first wave for me. What do think, Tom? Well, I guess I'm... The money that he's raised was $1 million in 10 days, over 12,000 donors. So that implies that there's a lot of small donors. And that would fit with his demographic of...

you know, the lower middle class, middle class folks who just feel they can't get ahead in that New York environment. So, but New York's always been super expensive since 45 years ago when I worked there. It was outrageous. And I used to wonder why people thought they had to live in New York to find good work, because there's all these other places in the US that you could be employed.

But it really says something, I guess what's been on my mind is ⁓ why has he appealed to, you know, a certain demographic, you know, that got him elected that lives within the New York City ⁓ borders. And, ⁓ you know, it's, I think it's a bit of a wake up call, because I know that as a boomer,

You know, I tend to think of the US based on my upbringing and the era that I grew up and where my peers are at, you know, at this stage. But I know that young folks are struggling like homeownership to be able to buy a house. Now it's it's, ⁓ you know, it's like in the 30s and 40s before people get their first home. You know, those whatever those numbers are, they're rising. Whereas, you know, my first house, I was in my early

20s. And after a few years of working, it was pretty easy to save a down payment, had to live further away from that. My first house was in New Jersey. And I used to work in Manhattan drive all the way to Manhattan, it was a couple hours away in traffic, and a couple hours at night. And that's where you live to afford, you know, a reasonable house kind of a thing. So I don't buy the concept that taxing the rich is going to be his salvation.

I think as other people realize there will be impediments to even implementing that policy, there's another side to government and...

and all that. ⁓ So let's, I think your comment about wow, so this process is going to play out one way, you know, whether I like it or not, and this is where people are at. And it does say to me, you know, let's take a look at how people are feeling about their prospects in life and what they feel they need. Yeah, you know, to ⁓ whereas I

I lived a kind of a, there was a different opportunity in my era. Now I can go on about why I think that's not so for people today. And, let's keep it Yeah. thing that comes to me and the insights I'm getting from spirit is that there's certain energy behind catchphrases. There's certain energy behind movements. And so that's really what this is all about at this time for those people in that area.

but it's also an ability to, for us on the outside of not living there, to look at what's happening and to feel into where's this going and how can this trickle out to perhaps the rest of the country or certain other areas of the country that are like you're saying Tom, are having really dire straits with making ends meet, with places to live and homeless people or whatever the situations are that.

but it's that wave of energy that's prevalent right there and present right now for what's happening in that area. Yeah. And to add to that, I also picked that up. so to add to that is, ⁓ you know, that style of, of wanting to help people that, that, comes, that it's a pattern, it's a style, you know,

capitalism is a style, socialism is a style, monarchy is a style, it's a pattern, there's a box that people fit in or don't. And so it comes with a certain checklist. In other words, in order to fulfill that system, there's a checklist you have to be checking off the boxes in order to do. So we're gonna see some of this stuff play out. ⁓

The other thing I picked up on this is because the surrounding areas, the whole of the country is not like that. So it already changes the dynamics. So if my neighbors aren't believing the same way I believe it, my little yard is my yard. I can't let myself, no matter how much I want to go past my yard. So I'm in my little

My little property line and my little home. And that comes with some pluses and minuses. I know where I begin and end, but at the same time, I have challenges with doing everything that I want to do. So I picked up that there's going to be a lot of wheeling and dealing in the background. So there'll be the deals done in the daylight that they think is going to fulfill checking off the boxes. And there's going to be a lot of deals done in the dark that

don't necessarily check off the boxes, but it looks good and it'll keep them going kind of thing. So that's something to be aware of. And I think if people saw all the things that were going on in the background, they would be very disheartened with what they feel is an ideal situation or an idyllic sense of systems. in the background, but it won't really be.

from a socialist perspective. It's not really going to live up to the tenets of socialism, is take from the rich and give to the poor and make it more also a theme right now, right? On the whole planet of things rising to the top of like, oh, that's the truth in that area. That's the truth going on there. So that's quite interesting. And so then what my concern is, and this is I don't see any change from this from a, yet have a historical position and then you just have, let's look at energy.

Let's just see the energy. Everything that I'm seeing so far is there's going to be a lot of movement, but not a whole lot of advancement. So there'll be moving things around on the board, so to speak, and it'll feel good initially. And there will be some good things that'll come out, but as far as the advancement, like are we actually advancing forward? That's going to not be where they want it to be.

That's the concern that I have is all this great, excited energy, lots of movement, not a whole lot of advancement. Is what I hear you saying is about like the soul essence, our soul nature, what the soul is here to do and work with. Is that what I hear you saying? Yeah, yeah. And practical, how they're gonna make free buses and how they're gonna open up free grocery stores and stuff that they really wanna do and free healthcare. Like there's gonna be a lot of movement.

But how much advancement is it going to be there? But spiritually, ⁓ and you're picking it up. I cannot count on things that are free. This is the thing I can't count on that. I want to utilize things that are easy for me so I can advance myself that spiritually I can grow, but I can't count on it. If I let myself fall into, ⁓

a rhythm and routine of thoughts of where I'm going to count on something that's free or count on somebody else giving me something that is ⁓ a building on sand as opposed to building on the rock. Right. When I come back home to what I can do and what I'm going to build, that is a spiritual and physical solid foundation that I know where I begin and end, even if it's has some limits that I don't, you know,

I'm not where I want to be financially or I'm not where I want to be physically. That's okay. Because it's on, I know where I'm at. I know who I am and where I begin and end. And that is powerful because then spirit can move in and give me the hints, give me the, but if I'm built on sand, I'm reliant on stuff. The messages that come in, I'm, it's like, I'm trying to catch a ball on a thing that's moving underneath me.

You know, so, so that's, it becomes more challenging for me. So that's the, that's the two key areas and my spiritual lessons that I picked up for this for myself is number one, loyalty to my purpose. I always need to come back to that. Number two, expanding my people's scope. In other words, having more people in my life and more opportunity in my life.

And then on a daily energy is have more freedom and more independence. What you got to say about that, Tom? Well, I like how you tuned into those. You know what the lessons are going to be and see, because I don't expect any of what men domni. What is this? Ma'am? Donnie. Donnie. I don't expect any of it to be successful, but I relate to how.

in life, I found that well, people will put up a front like another way of saying this for me is, and they'll pretend that it's because of this say, let's say they pick, you know, taxing the rich more, and they'll pretend they'll make it look like maybe that was how they accomplish free buses. I'm just making this up. I don't know if they can really do free buses. But really, when you look at free services and things like that, I mean, we have things where we get supported.

We sort of decide like, for example, ⁓ you know, defense or law enforcement in our communities is paid for, I don't have to pay anything except for my taxes, the fire department, I don't have to pay the fire department to come and put out a fire at my house. You know, they'll do that for free. Well, not really, because we're paying taxes into a bucket and the bucket is divvied up amongst where the needs are. So if you swap needs, I have no

problem with that. you in other words, you want to make buses free, then ⁓ you know, you take out of that bucket and you redistribute things. ⁓ But I guess what I have seen in life is even in business where people will pretend that by following certain tenants of their business that they became successful. When in fact,

they did whatever they did, or they were in the right place at the right time. But boy, when they tell the story, they tell it right along the company lines, you know, or the pervasive wisdom. because people want, if it fits with my concepts, or my ideology, or my belief system in that area, that's what I want to hear. And so, you know, my caution is, that, be careful of

things that I want to hear, right too much. mean, so what do I mean? Just remember to check with my feelings. How do I really feel? What's what am I picking up? You know, what are my feelings? Yeah. And so I really want to kind of come back to the more freedom and independence. And that feels to me like a real big spiritual lesson for all those people at this moment in time. And I know that's something to that like no matter what

I'm personally going through or any of anyone I speak to or any other soul on the planet is going through it. The level of what we're going through matches where we're at energetically. So the people that he's attracted to him may not feel as free as I feel at this moment or as independent as I feel. so finding a leader, whether it be political or religious or whatever,

that's gonna inspire me to feel that freedom or even, you know, honestly what's coming to me now is they may not even understand the word freedom. Because if this guy's a real socialist and you know, more ⁓ of that nature, that's not the freedom that we have really understood to be in America. So that's really what I wanna share is that, you know, as far as spiritually, it's meeting the needs of the people that are there in that moment.

But those of us that are more free and those of us that feel that independence in our lives, it's hard to relate to because we're beyond that. We've advanced beyond that. Well, I'll throw in something there. You know, I was listening to some recent historians talk about antiquity and ⁓ well, I had to do I guess because I was learning about, you know, ⁓ the American Revolution and what the founding fathers thought and how they actually drew upon

the classics, know, like the Aristotle's and the Socrates and all kinds of those are like the only ones I remember, but all kinds of, you know, ancient thought, you know, of 3000 years ago, 2000 years ago, kind of a thing. And I got this sense, so I'm getting chills, like, I feel like I've lived through that stuff before, because this idea of

the collective and testing the rich and taking from, know, there's nothing new about this egalitarian equal result idea. You know, this has been something that's always been around and it comes to life in different forms, you know, over time. And, and in recent history, you know, the Marxist thought in terms of socialism, you know, there was a rise in that again in the 1800s when he was around, but they drew upon

people that came well before them. So all I'm really saying is the soul, I relate to what you're saying. It's like, I probably already have, I've lived through it. I can feel that ain't gonna work or it's not gonna, well, really that's what I feel. Like I think- fulfill your needs. It won't fulfill my needs. It might work for a while or they might get stuck in it. But their needs are right. That's exactly right. That was gonna be my closing. Go ahead. Yeah. Their needs.

The people who are following him, they need they need to go through that to evolve through that. Absolutely. that was my my thing. I don't want people to or anyone to to misunderstand for me is I'm not saying that that's bad. I'm just saying that that's that let it play itself out so that it's a learning opportunity where the problems get in there. And this goes for any country, any state, any province. If

They're self funded if they're contained in the sense that they're working with what they have and they're making that work. Yeah, that's great. Even if there's ⁓ falling short in certain areas and other areas are doing good because then there's the actual ability to learn and grow. But when I went the deal is, is if the state's going to keep bailing the situation out for the policies or the

the whole country is going to bail certain things out for their policies. No one learns and grows. You get smarter, right? It's like the confusion gets smarter. The hamster. But you never grow. It always stay in the hamster wheel. Or the groundhog day. Yeah. Next, next, next. And so that anyway, that's my thing is it's, I think it's wonderful that what the way he's able to pull this together. I think there's a lot to learn from that. I think a lot of

people and young people to want to do something, want to be a part of something. I'm going to get into that in our next story, but it's this next wave moving through that for myself, I need to be sensitive to. I need to let people know that they can be a part of something and they are a part of something spiritually. So on to our next story. Okay. One of our wonderful ⁓

listeners out there in Ireland, Northern Ireland. She proposed this and said, hey, you guys might want to speak a little bit on this subject. And I was like, Ooh, this is a good one. So this was about ⁓ a family, a non-religious family living in Northern Ireland, whose daughter came home and there was some having some Bible based teachings from, from school. And then it started, that's what started everything like, okay, so

What's this about? Why are you teaching my daughter this? ⁓ You know, like the indoctrinations, why is there collective worship in schools? ⁓ You know, and so then it just like it just started the whole bandwagon. So it's a really big thing. And I know in the States too, that we've had situations, not necessarily with, I mean, religion, because we've got different schools that are Catholic or Protestant or whatever, right? Or Christian schools and not Christian schools, public schools.

But we also have things over here with like, you know, the woke and different aspects. So, but this was quite interesting because Northern Ireland is very, is a very religious area. Yeah. Yeah. And obviously that's been a big part of their history. That's the history, right? That's the culture. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, this was a, I, ⁓ when this came up, I'm glad you, ⁓ chose that and, and thank you for the, you know, the person who sent that in. So for me, there's a couple of things.

More people are going to bring more beliefs. The scope of what I believe in is going to get stretched because there's just going to be more, more people move in. There's going to be more ideas and they're going to be different. And some of them going to be opposing and some of them be great. And, ⁓ if they're going to embrace that, then eventually there's going to, in order to have peace, ⁓ you know, they'll come up with some kind of version of a separation of church and state.

kind of thing, but we'll see how it, it falls to the distinction is what you said, Tom, is that there's a whole culture there. There's a, there's a whole way of life for that country and that is now being shifted or moved. So we'll see how that goes. ⁓

What I foresee there, what I'm seeing there is number one, the high court, and you brought this up in the green room, the high court is not even in Ireland. Right? Right. So we don't even know who the people are because they, when they put in the, ⁓ the, ⁓ the, in the court system, the lawsuit, they, they're just

No names. It's a pseudo name. So we don't even know whether they're non-religious or whether they're a different faith ⁓ or anything. It's just, that's what it was. So, but the net result is going to cause a lot of ups and downs because if you have a whole culture that is used to doing something one way, and then the law now says we're not going to do that anymore. Now you have this ⁓ upheaval.

Right. And it feels like you're striking at the heart of what the country is or the people feel the country is. So that's going to start a whole new stimulus going on. on top of it, this is kind of ripe because you have the whole immigration thing happening over there in Ireland. And now this is going to come in. So there's going to be, for me, the first wave of this is this is going to start stimulating a lot of ups and downs.

Yeah, and especially when it's some outer authority that's decreeing something. And, you know, I think on both sides of politics, whether it's right or left, when you move towards someone else telling you who's not you, who's not living even in your country, how you should behave and, you know, take away that free will or take away the power of the local community to decide or the local area to decide how they

you know, want to proceed referring to the high court ruling, right? Not even being in Ireland. Yeah. Being in the UK, you know, in London, I guess we'd heard. So I guess that should, that'll be interesting to see how that, how that will, how well that's accepted or not accepted. Um, I think that from a spiritual perspective, like what I notice is that, you know, I, I have to watch

my thoughts, like no matter what ideology I have or what system I prefer, you know, for ⁓ as we move through our life and how we'd like society organized, you know, if we, and I think we talked a bit about this last time as well, that you can fall into this trap of it's gotta be this way. And we're gonna tell you how to think and tell you how to be.

⁓ what do we call that? Imposing even if it's for a good thing, like even if it's for, you, if you're imposing an evolution on people like that, know spiritually even doing spiritual work, like, ⁓ if I impose my views on reincarnation on somebody or that's never really works, you know, it's, you give people spiritual indigestion and then what they do is they rebel.

And, you know, eventually they might believe the things I believe, but I, we seem to, you know, where I can get caught in confusion is no matter what side I'm on, left or right or religious or non-religious, if I start imposing what I prefer, that's not going to help the situation. And yet we live in an intellectual dominated

world, semi intellectual state of consciousness where we think that's the solution. And yet we it always bounces back out of that. And then it bounces back into that. And we we seem to have this out of balance, you know, ⁓ way we keep moving through the planet, you know, or the planet keeps moving. Yeah, I think to me, that's part of why we're here. Yeah. I mean, having those opposing forces.

having those opposing thoughts, even the feelings like, know, trial and error of it all. Absolutely. So if I don't have moments of things that piss me off or get me roused up or vice versa or times when I'm more serene or more calm and relaxed, like how am going to really learn about the next, like we said earlier, the next advancement of my soul and what I've come to do and what I've come to experience. So to me, I also see this like,

It's really just like, like, I see the world as a big quilt, and this is just like a little a little part of the quilt. Okay, what are we going to do with this? we're going to like, maybe take it apart and maybe, you know, rethread it again. Or so it's just another another aspect of all the changes going on. Well, you know, people will say like, ⁓ well, it's right that they're more open minded and, you know, less Catholic or less religious, you know, and, you know, there's truth in that. But there's a place for everything. There's a

There's truth in that. It's ⁓ all we're talking about is being balanced with it. You know that that's yeah, but your balance that and Tiger's balance and my balance are different than other people's back. Everyone's balance is different. It's true. Yeah. Except we're talking about a group of people. So I mean, yeah, I I think that's about like, you know, is this good or is this bad? Is this right? Or is this wrong? Really?

there's truth in all things, but not one thing has all the truth. And am I going to approach this evolution, say of ⁓ religious freedom? Are we going to approach that imbalance? Yeah, I mean, I, be clear, means respect for each. That's right. Respect. That's right. To be clear, I, you know, I, I'm going to be more of someone that wouldn't want

me myself or my family indoctrinated, I'd much rather have them figure it out for themselves. So I'm in that perspective as a person who lives more of a spiritual life or a non-dogmatic life. I don't want that imposition. I don't want the system telling me much other than, know, no killing, no stealing, no lying. The The basics, you know, kind of thing.

So, you know, it's not that I disagree with the ruling. It's just that nothing's for free. You know, we were just talked about in the earlier segment there, you know, if they're going to start changing the culture and removing that out now, now they're not going to completely remove it. They now they have to go figure out how to force it, which is now the devil's in the details, right? Because they're going to still do ⁓ religious training, but now it's going to be.

more general, rather than specific. It's gonna start getting much more generalized. So that comes with a price, right? You're now walking into a situation where you're gonna water stuff down for those who believe in what was originally taught. And the challenge is, the idea is that, okay, well, we'll take the best, we'll take the tenants, the positive things about, you know,

don't steal and you know, treat yourself like you love your neighbor and okay, let's bring that into the system. But without the feeling part, without the religious part, it starts to do degrade date, it starts to water down. So it is exactly what you're saying. So that's it. You just said it so perfectly. It's an up and then down in then out.

And it's going to constantly be this thing that moves back and forth so that I can learn. so that's the big key for me is, and now the other component that I've tuned into on this is what is this priming us for? What is going to get stimulated? So you have the big thing over there is where the government's at, and then you had this big immigration thing, and now you've got this ruling about religion in the schools. With my kids.

To me, this is starting to stimulate that old energy and those souls who maybe, maybe people don't even remember it because they don't, they weren't old enough, but there was a war between the North and South with Ireland. was a religious war, right? That energy is going to start re stimulating if they're not careful because they're, they're starting, the souls start coming back with that fight in them ready.

So every now and then that starts comes in. It's like every so they'd say that in the spiritual communities every 2000 years, you know, there's certain souls that come in to help shift things. every so many it's that that's true cyclically, not just 2000 years. It happens, you know, lifetime after lifetime. But that's the one thing is that the old it's fueling the old religious wars. If it's not done well, if the people who are in charge don't

allow a degree of freedom, but also maintaining some stability, maintaining the foundations of what we're talking about, the tenants, it's going to, it's going to open up an old wound of now here comes the revolution again. I'm not suggesting anyone listening to this is that, okay, we're to have a bunch of war. I'm saying that that, energy of conflict will be within the people again. I didn't have to be outward. can be inward. So that for me, the, the

The key core lessons that it stood out to me is that the it's about the system, making sure that there's human dignity, live and let live brought into the system, right? That that's and let them, they can mess around with the edges, but the core of things needs to have that, that the live and let live and human dignity. And then going back to what you said, Tom is self-respect and inspiring self-respect in others, that that has to be a core tenant with.

what this energy is stimulating. And lastly, it's just what we said is that if I don't have the opportunity to go through those ups and downs, I'm not gonna grow. Yeah, it just seems to me that each person on the planet is put in the perfect place for what they've come to experience this lifetime. And, know, like back to the first, ⁓ we were talking about New York and the people that are there and, you know, how many of us have been through

Christianity wars many times. Like how many times have we gone through these things and you know, and reincarnated and it's and so that's why I think for myself, like I, it's hard to relate to that because I've already done it. So it's interesting that the people that come forth to bring, you know, to bring out like, okay, they're called over there. They had a thing called humanists, which are people that are more about, you know, all of us being human and all of us interacting together and having different like, you know, the

the range of religions coming into the schools and different speakers, but they call themselves humanists. And so on, which is a kind of a cool name actually, I like that. But that's really gonna stimulate people that are still in that real strong religious, you know, Which they came into this lifetime in that area to experience, which we have in other lifetimes too. But this lifetime, the three of us chose to come into,

a more free experience in the United States and then, and you know, and play out the roles here. So I think that's quite interesting. it's interesting. The places we reincarnate. Perfect. Come on, I come to do. yeah. You know, I keep feeling that hearing that theme, you know, I, I love it that, you know, individual communities, individual states, individual cities can decide. Yeah.

how they want to move forward and like minded people are somewhat attracted to those same places. So ⁓ in my feelings, you know, I feel a lot of respect for the way things were until this ruling, because I, even though I'm not, you know, Joe practicing Catholic, ⁓ for example, or I'm not super dogmatic, but I, there's a, and I have lifetimes there. So

there's a respect for allowing that place to be like that. And I suppose even just like the Middle East, allowing them to be more Muslim or Shiite or whatever, you know, not that I understand all that very much, but you know, I respect, I respect those, that group of souls opportunities. So, you know, something, something shifting for a reason and

As you know, I'm going to be consistent, I'm going to be me throughout all of it anyway. long as people are able to communicate with each other, continue to trade with each other, exchange with each other. That is the key. It's the moment when they start creating roadblocks to the communication. That's when the troubles really begin.

I'm glad you said that word communication, because that goes right into the next story, which is our final story today about it's interesting. Well, I saw this story online and I was like, I was first drawn to the picture because the picture had earth and it had two satellites and it had a laser beam between it. And then I saw the word Chinese and I saw the word Starlink and I was like.

what is this? mean, it was almost like they're going to have a war in the space war, space war. But you know how those those things that the pictures intrigue you or like that they catch your eye. Yeah, like, ho ho, what's that all about? And this is basically about the story was about how Chinese have put up a satellite, a tester to see, you know, how it does against like Starlink. And it actually, guess, is five times as fast and more efficient than Starlink. But of course, there's

Only like one up there right now. In certain conditions, in a turbulent scenario or something. And it said it has something like the speed from space to earth in like five seconds. Yeah, it's really fast. Of the communication. Yeah. For the turbulence. fast. Zoom. That was that laser beam I saw. Yeah. for me, big story is that

You know, like you just said, they're pushing the boundaries. They're moving forward in certain areas and, you know, their system and the way they govern and handle people and things allows them to ⁓ just really press forward on a lot of things and in a certain way. But you know that they have three astronauts stuck up in space right now? Yeah, yeah. The Chinese do. Yeah, and they're not coming back right now.

That's a whole other story. the challenge though with all so that's the and like Thomas saying is that's it was a test situation right and so they've had a lot of troubles with their satellites and ⁓ you know so they're highlighting this one success they're not talking about yeah they have a lot of troubles over there just it's not a ⁓ wonderful

you know, utopian thing. But the thing that stood out to me with that is it's going to help everybody else because those of us who build consistently or for those pioneers who do that kind of stuff, like in, in like the other companies that like Starlink and I think there's other Hughes, ⁓ I don't know if they're still in business, but you know, they, there's other companies that do that.

It's going to help push the envelope, right? Cause they want to be of service. They want to get market share. So all that's good. The thing for me to always remember is that it's the way I do things. It's not just what I do. Right. It's that, it's like that whole thing about, it's not just a destination. It's the journey. Right. So their style and their system of doing this, it's, it's like they're throwing

A lot of energy at different things. And it reminds me of that, of that old thing about a point in every direction is point in no direction at all. Right. And so there's this energy there where they, they seem to have enough people power and money because of their system to force things to happen. Right. It's not organic. They, they force stuff to happen. And I think you were talking about in the green room, they never, there's not a whole lot of personal and

and true evolution or ⁓ advancement of new creativity, new ideas, true revolution. It's more they're using what other people have. They emulate others' success and designs and things like that. Yeah. And so that system that they're working under ⁓ is good for that. Right. It's not good for pioneering. Right. But it's good for

taking something and we're going to rework it and we're going to do this, you know, and all that. So there's a there's a little bit of that energy of forcing and pushing stuff. So it's almost like, well, we need to get going on the space race. OK, throw a bunch of people and money at that. OK. Well, we need to have this. OK, we'll throw a bunch of money and people at that. Right. So it's it's like they're throwing the energy is they're throwing time and energy and resources at things. But there's not that energy truly.

Of we want to be of service. We're going to build nice and steady toward this. Now that sounds kind of like a contradiction because they make these plans of like a hundred year plans and things like that. Well, there that hundred year plan is more about dominance. It's not building something to be of service. It's more about dominance. And that's where I'm going to start with is while it's they're going to make some

big inroads and make some pushes ahead, it's coming from a place of I want to be dominant, not I want to be of service. Thoughts on that,

Well, that's a great perspective. ⁓ And I like how we're evaluating it from that point of view, because it lets go of like the rights and wrongs, the moral issue of it, you know, if they copied this or did that, and just kind of looks at the positive side of the way of moving forward. But, ⁓ you know, I have a feeling that

building for service in the longer term is the, ⁓ well, that's where the fulfillment and the solution is. That's the security that inner security comes from and the outer security comes from is that how can we be of service? In fact, I pick up this impression as you share.

Wow, you know, like if that shifted over there, yeah, in China, or that big place, they would dominate the world with the service, you know, as long as their motives were clear, and they were truly being of service and that liberty, you know, and respect for all life and humans and live and let live, you couldn't stop them. But what's interesting is they

they're holding themselves back is this impression I get. My spiritual perspective is actually holding themselves back by moving intellectually from that power trip standpoint or that dominance standpoint, which really stems from an insecurity, you know, that they can't, they have to be dominant or they won't be powerful and secure. You know, I suppose all that gets interwoven in that.

Yeah, the key that comes to me is about its competition. Yeah. So and you're, know, when you saying the being of service and especially to those that you're servicing, right? You know, and that kind of situation being above and you're going to be servicing on everyone on the planet with, you know, with lasers and speed and all that technology. the competition to me feels it doesn't feel it doesn't feel good.

It doesn't feel like it's the right way. But again, it's back to which was kind of at the income, like what do all these stories have in common? It what has in common is that, you know, they're servicing the people that that are wanting to be competitive. those of us that are more free and feel free and want to have more freedom. mean, of course, yeah, we want fast Internet, right? But but it comes at a cost when you're working with people that aren't of integrity. ⁓

and aren't, you know, really of service and, in a spiritual way. Yeah. And that's not to say there aren't people over there that are absolutely very clear motives and want to be of service. there's a positive, they're under that Chinese doctrine. Tremendous history. You're a great strong people. Yeah. But so the, the part that I think that you're all sharing on is for me, the lessons, when I hear this story that I can take home for myself,

is I need to shine bright in my service. I need to just shine bright in my service. So not let anything darken me, just be bright as possible because the net result is I'm always going to try to catch up if I'm not being myself. Right? And you know, that's, you know, you're a great example of that. It's like

just being myself, let's everything come just right in its right timing. Right. So just be shining bright in my service. And then the second thing it was, it's an old quote and probably you all remember it to be shrewd as a serpent and innocent as a dove, right? Meaning it is very, it is reality that they're throwing satellites up there and they'll have the means to be able to control

communication, means of communication, know that they can dictate what moves up and down there. And they're making alliances with other countries and all this good stuff. So I need to be aware of that. I need to be shrewd and know that that's a reality. There's no, maybe they'll do that. And maybe they won't. No, no, no, no. There. That's what the plan is. Period.

Now I'm not saying that as an alarmist, I'm saying that's where their stated plan, they want to take over. And that's their plan. Yep. Right. So I need to be clear with that. They're clear with that clear motives, clear motives. But the is I need to be shrewd in that I need to know that. But now that I know that I can move things in place, but I can still be that light hearted, I can still be that innocent.

as a dub, can still be of service and have want that fair play, right? So I know when to bring in the hammer and I know when to bring in, you know, the nice gentle glove, you know, so that to me, those are the two key things is I can't ignore the fact that people in my environment or maybe pressures around me wants to dominate, wants to control. Okay.

I don't need to be afraid about it. I need to know it. I need to be alert to it. But then I can go forward into my life with a light heart. I like that. Yeah. So, okay. So let's ⁓ see what these stories have in common. Tom, what are you? What's your perspective on these three stories? Well, for me, it's always coming back to ⁓ that feeling light at heart and that if I

as I move through my day and the opportunities I'm involved with in business and social opportunities and so forth is that as long as I'm being authentic, I almost hate to say that word authentic because it's kind of overused. But what that means to me is it's just being in my true feelings or being in my feelings, but I'm calm, I'm alert, I'm aware. And, ⁓ you know, no matter what

directives I'm being given by the people that have or the businesses that have somewhat authority over me. I still have free will as to how I feel inside. And that many times, really what I've been putting together is the more I'm just relaxed and truly of service, I start hitting the targets, I start hitting the goals that I want to achieve. So guess that's similar to what we're talking about is if people...

you know, stay positive, relaxed and in their true feelings with that, you know, true service vibration. How can I really help you or not help? Rather than what I've been programmed or what I'm told to say and think and do, I actually start hitting my targets or hitting my key performance indicators and.

Like I said, I tuned into that feeling like if China just turned their ethos around to being service from their feelings. Wow. Yeah. I mean, we there's billions of them, you know, and that energies there. So a lot of souls are attracted to that environment and must be a lot of learning and growing you can do there. So the commonality that I see in these three stories is the word change and that it's really just

you know, another week of looking at different things around the world and what change is taking place. What change is preparing to give people the exact opportunities and the exact experiences that they need for what they've come to do and for their next advancement. my common denominator with the whole thing is similar, very similar to what both of you saying. It has to do with ⁓

I'm perfect for what I come to do. And I'm at the right place at the right time. I was born to the right time. I was born to the right place. ⁓ warts and all through all the problems through all the greatness. I, I was I'm perfect for what I came to do. And when I make that shift, I recognize that everything is here for me. And that and that follows that I do have power.

I do have choice. I do have ability and opportunity everywhere. And if I come back home to that reality, there's no limit, right? If the system isn't working for me here, all right. And I feel that there's a big stink about it. Great. I'll find some other system and I'll move some other place. Or if it's not that big of a stink, great. I'll conform and play your game. Great. As long as I know what I've come to do.

So to me, as long as I'm willing to come back home, that I'm here, I'm perfect for what I've come to do, everything is just right for me. I've got the power to fulfill on my purpose, on my life. I don't have the power to fulfill on someone else's life. I have limited energy in that, but I have unlimited energy to do what I've come to do. ⁓

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